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A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines

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how it values successful inclusion or exclusion versus errors of undercoverage andleakage. It is healthy to go through a process of thinking explicitly and intentionallyabout how possible targeting outcomes are valued.A common choice of benefits and costs is “Total Accuracy” (IRIS Center, 2005;Grootaert and Braithwaite, 1998). With “Total Accuracy”, total net benefit is <strong>the</strong>number of households correctly included or correctly excluded:Total Accuracy = 1 x Households correctly included –0 x Households mistakenly undercovered –0 x Households mistakenly leaked +1 x Households correctly excluded.Figure 12 shows “Total Accuracy” <strong>for</strong> all cut-offs <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Philippines</strong>’ scorecard.For <strong>the</strong> national line in <strong>the</strong> validation sample, total net benefit is greatest (81.5) <strong>for</strong> acut-off of 30–34, with about four in five Filipino households correctly classified.“Total Accuracy” weighs successful inclusion of households below <strong>the</strong> line <strong>the</strong>same as successful exclusion of households above <strong>the</strong> line. If a program valued inclusionmore (say, twice as much) than exclusion, it could reflect this by setting <strong>the</strong> benefit <strong>for</strong>inclusion to 2 and <strong>the</strong> benefit <strong>for</strong> exclusion to 1. Then <strong>the</strong> chosen cut-off wouldmaximize (2 x Households correctly included) + (1 x Households correctly excluded). 2828Figure 12 also reports “BPAC”, <strong>the</strong> Balanced <strong>Poverty</strong> Accuracy Criteria adopted byUSAID as its criterion <strong>for</strong> certifying poverty scorecards. IRIS Center (2005) says thatBPAC considers accuracy both in terms of <strong>the</strong> estimated poverty rate and in terms oftargeting inclusion. After normalizing by <strong>the</strong> number of people below <strong>the</strong> poverty line,<strong>the</strong> <strong>for</strong>mula is:BPAC = (Inclusion – |Undercoverage – Leakage|) x [100 ÷ (Inclusion+Undercoverage)].43

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